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WH: Fort Hood Massacre was 'Workplace Violence'

2011-12-08

Sen. Susan Collins on Wednesday blasted the Defense Department for classifying the Fort Hood massacre as workplace violence and suggested political correctness is being placed above the security of the nation's Armed Forces at home.
So would getting blown up in Afghanistan be classified as "workplace violence" too? I'm so confused.
During a joint session of the Senate and House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday, the Maine Republican referenced a letter from the Defense Department depicting the Fort Hood shootings as workplace violence. She criticized the Obama administration for failing to identify the threat as radical Islam.
Go ahead. Click on the link if you want to raise your blood pressure even further.

Posted by:gorb

#13 if classifying this as workplace violence is what it takes to get people taking it seriously *before hand* so be it

It was a failure of leadership.

Posted by: Pappy 2011-12-08 23:02

#12 I've read that, or something very similar before. He went nuts and radical islam gave direction to his insanity. He should not have survived the day. Having said that a number of folks let his growing nuttiness pass in the name of political correctness and if classifying this as workplace violence is what it takes to get people taking it seriously *before hand* so be it.

Posted by: rjschwarz 2011-12-08 20:47

#11 Quran to slaves of allah: "jihad is prescribed to you."

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that many carpet humpers won't disobey allah's law.

Posted by: Threse Closing5130 2011-12-08 18:53

#10 rjschwarz- please read below.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/258850/lieberman-collins-slam-dod-fbi-fort-hood-shooting-brian-bolduc

Posted by: jack salami 2011-12-08 15:34

#9 Two words: Allahu akbar.

Posted by: gorb 2011-12-08 15:07

#8 I'm not sure "workplace violence" is that terrible a classification. Yes Islamic Jihadism was his motivator but still there was every indication this guy was going to go nuts and nobody followed up on it. They brushed it under the rug. The FBI, CIA, NSA and military intelligence couldn't have been expected to have spotted it when the only evidence of anything wrong was fitness reports and the like that really covered up or ignored the problem.

However they need to classify it to make sure it doesn't happen again. And although I agree the political motivations for this were probably to be able to campaign on not having allowed any terrorist attacks I don't think anyone here feels Obama really could have done anything to have prevented this. It was an institutional PC thought train that didn't appear overnight, it was drilled into everyone over years by the military and the culture at large.

Posted by: rjschwarz 2011-12-08 15:00

#7 Babylon 5 had an episode far in the future where "goodfacts" were presented, as opposed to (IIRC) "realfacts".

Posted by: Bobby 2011-12-08 13:24

#6 Newspeak

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-12-08 13:14

#5 Libyan campaign was a "kinetic military action"

Zero's first language is newspeak.

Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2011-12-08 12:48

#4 What a disgrace. Screw POTUS. His head is stuffed all the way up his fourth point of contact.

Our legal system will never recover from his reign. America is dead.

Posted by: newc 2011-12-08 12:38

#3 It's classed as "workplace violence" so that preventing or dealing with the aftermath of future massacres of this type can be dealt with using different sources of funding. For example, funds used to deal with anger-management, diversity-awareness, domestic violence, post-deployment stress (at least under pre-deployment auspices)- I did mention diversity awareness, right - and other such funding that deals with making the armed forces aware of its mosaic, multicultural, multi-gender composition and ultimately endowing it with a cultural environment indistinguishable from any Fortune 500 company.

Dealing with massacres of this type as "workplace violence" also removes the responsibility from a military leadership already dealing with such vital and pressing issues as working up for yet another deployment with a portion of their troops medically unfit/pregnant/on terminal leave, cutting their operating/training budgets, plastic recycling, child care, ensuring proper quotas during promotion/selection, and scheduling various monthly/weekly/daily cultural events. It places the issue squarely in the hands of medical professionals, social workers, diversity-awareness educators and legal professionals, who are more than willing to take up the challenge of the expending the extended and redirected use of funding.

/not-so-sarcastic

Posted by: Pappy 2011-12-08 09:17

#2 Work Place Violence according to the White House: 1) The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor...our military was at work and so were the Japanese. 2) JFK assassination, both Kennedy and Oswald were at work, 3) 9/11, the 3000 citizens were at work and so were the 19

Posted by: David Copperfield 2011-12-08 08:26

#1 It is important to the Obama Admin's self image that the Nov 09 Ft Hood massacre and the June 09 Little Rock killing not be considered terrorism. This is so the Obama team can pretend that they have not allowed attacks on the US.

The fallback position used by the dept of Justice is that those events were domestic terrorism (so they don't have to mention the word 'islam')

Posted by: Lord Garth 2011-12-08 07:32

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